Intel Xeon E5-2643 v2 vs Intel Core i5-9300HF

Xeon E5-2643 v2 vs Core i5-9300HF comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2643 v2 beats the Core i5-9300HF in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-9300HF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2643 v2 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-9300HF. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2643 v2 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-9300HF. It also has more threads than the Core i5-9300HF. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2643 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-9300HF. Despite this, the Core i5-9300HF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-9300HF outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2643 v2 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2643 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.